THE EDITOR RESERVES THE LAST COLUMN
The Editor Reserves . . . The Last Column THE>STORY that Edith O. Newby tells on Page 9 of this issue ought to be read by every American who has been exposed to John Roy Carlson's Under Cover, the...
...Of course they'd both be right...
...The Editor Reserves . . . The Last Column THE>STORY that Edith O. Newby tells on Page 9 of this issue ought to be read by every American who has been exposed to John Roy Carlson's Under Cover, the story of his career as a one-man Gestapo...
...But education alone will never banish bigotry...
...Mrs...
...These, of course, must be dealt with promptly and courageously, but as Mayor LaGuardia pointed out, PM and the Post are "doing an ill service to the people of New York by sensationalizing individual acts of anti-Semitism...
...Rankin's racist outbursts are a stain on American democracy, and so are Winchell's ranting, raucous diatribes which are shot through with venomous intolerance...
...It was Carlson, stealing every trick that Hearst has used in yellow journalism and Himmler in secret police entrapments, who wrecked a good idea and fouled what should have been an honorable assignment—the investigation and exposure of fascist forces in America—by the indiscriminate spattering of great gobs of mud on countless Americans whose only crime was that they opposed involvement in war before war was thrust upon us...
...New York, like most American cities, has had occasional outbursts of anti-Semitic vandalism...
...The growth of intolerance today is actually the outward manifestation of a fundamental lack of faith in the future —a lack of faith which gnaws at the insides of countless Americans...
...There are, it seems to me, two major weapons against intolerance, whether it be anti-Semitism, Jim Crowism, "hate all the Germans," or any other form of bigotry...
...Imagine Dr...
...Intolerance breeds intolerance...
...Everyone who reads the New York press knows she means PM and the Post...
...There are, it seems to me, two groups of extremists, one as crude and intolerant as the other...
...The underlying need is for a social and economic program which will strike at the causes of intolerance—unrest, insecurity, fear, lack of opportunity, etc...
...Last week Dies pointed an accusing finger at Carlson as a smear artist...
...When bigot meets bi<?ot, as when Carlson meets Dies or Winehell meets Rankin, the resulting exchange of mud balls is bound to wound many innocent bystanders...
...Plan, whose underlying belief, according to Prof...
...The same goes for a oair of beauts like Walter Winehell and Rep...
...It will take the wisest leadership and the calmest counsel to prevent the dynamite they are playing with from exploding into a Nazi-like terror...
...You needn't take Mrs...
...John Rankin, pollution specialists extraordinary...
...Hatred and intolerance, of course, are by-products of war, and bigotry is bound to grow as fatigue, anxiety, and frayed nerves make men irritable, suspicious, and resentful of any criticism...
...I believe in encouraging every committee and foundation which is making a genuine effort to promote tolerance and understanding...
...Meanwhile, look at the cartoon on this page—an old one we dug out of the files...
...In the other are neurotic smut-peddlers, hysterical jitter-bugs, circulation-hungry newspapers, and the ever-present professional friends of the Jews...
...Winehell, Carlson, Rankin, Dies, Hoffman, et al...
...Intolerance in every form must be fought on every front, fought not by legislative compulsions, or by totalitarian censorship, or by big, black headlines designed to whip up hysteria and sell papers...
...The first is education—a vast, almost virgin field...
...And anything that Dies and Carlson call each other is bound to be pretty close to the mark...
...Martin Dies has long been an advocate of the technique of using a great big net in chasing un-American and subversive individuals—a net so big that you are bound to catch 100 innocent bystanders for every subversive person...
...In one camp are an assortment of crackpots, racists, bitter-end Tories, greedy demagogues, and here and there a real fascist...
...Hearst and Himmler were not Carlson's only teachers...
...We'd like to paste it on the desks of the Messrs...
...Only a deep-going program of equality of economic opportunity, ushering m mi age of abundance, will put an end to their brooding over postwar breadlines and will make them look forward to tomorrow with a faith that makes men cooperate and not with a fear that makes men hate...
...Newby mentions two "bawling sheets" in New York which are cruelly exploiting the Jews in the name of fighting anti-Semitism...
...M.H.R...
...Newby is describing when she refers to that "cold-blooded character assassin," that "mendacious midget and pernicious little lie peddler...
...Goebbels and Herr Himmler shaking their fists and yelling at each other, "You Nazi swine...
...For it is Carlson whom Mrs...
...New York's Mayor LaGuardia, whose crusade against bigotry in all its forms is too well known to need repeating here, publicly denounced PM and the Post for manufacturing anti-Semitic scares...
...I shall be greatly interested in watching the results of the Springfield (Mass...
...Clyde Miller of Columbia, is "that a combination of superstition and ignorance which is called prejudice can be prevented or-eontrolled by the same scientific and humane methods that have controlled or prevented contagious physical diseases...
...Newby's word, or mine, on this...
Vol. 8 • March 1944 • No. 13
